You came into my life when I was alone, with not another person to call my own. You mended the broken shreds of my heart.
However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.
His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things.
I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.
...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.
I was fortunate to attend a school with an excellent library
What the was she doing on the nonhostage side of a handgun?
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.
I am no earthling. I drink moonshine on Mars and mistake meteors for stars ’cause I can’t hold my liquor. But I can hold my breath and ascend like wind to the black hole and play galaxophones on the fire escape of your soul.
Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
Conchar is an ancient Gaelic term for those who admire the king of all hunters: the wolf. To some, the wolf is a magnificent beast, the pinnacle of predatory evolution. To others, the wolf is a thing of nightmare.
We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them.
Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.
Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.
Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
When has faith ever been about feelings?
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.